l2910 Don and Phil Everly, known as the Everly Brothers, built their legend on flawless vocal harmonies. Their hits like “Bye Bye Love,” “Wake Up Little Susie,” and “All I Have to Do Is Dream” made them icons of 1950s rock and roll, and their influence shaped later superstars including The Beatles and Simon & Garfunkel. … Read more
Tiesin, että valitsisin hänet, jos hän koskaan kysyisi. Hän virnisti minulle päivällispöydässä vanhempiensa luona. En vastannut. Nousin vain ylös, kiitin hänen vanhempiaan ruoasta ja lähdin. Pakkasin hänen tavaransa ja jätin ne ovensuuhun. Vaihdoin lukot. Hän tuli kotiin ja oli vielä virnistämässä. Sitten hän näki kamansa eteisessä. Jokainen mies tietää syvällä sisimmässään, milloin hän on varavaihtoehto. … Read more
In the 1989 cult film *Heathers*, actor Jeremy Applegate delivered a line that would haunt his legacy: “I don’t think I could ever commit suicide… because I’d never live to hear all the groovy eulogies. ” Eleven years later, on March 23, 2000, Applegate died by suicide at age 35, transforming those on-screen words into … Read more
The bride was 18 years old, dressed in a gown that looked like a Gilded Age fantasy, and she was weeping openly as she walked down the aisle of St. Thomas’s Church on Fifth Avenue. Over 2,000 guests watched as Consuelo Vanderbilt married Charles Spencer-Churchill, the ninth Duke of Marlborough, on November 6, 1895. The … Read more
Bea Arthur, the towering star known to millions as Dorothy Zbornak on “The Golden Girls” and Maude Findlay on Norman Lear’s landmark sitcom, kept a significant chapter of her life out of her public biography for more than six decades: she was a staff sergeant in the U. S. Marine Corps Women’s Reserve during World … Read more
Puhelimeni pärähti yöpöydällä 5. 15 aamulla, ja tiesin jo ennen kuin katsoin ruutua, että viesti muuttaisi jotain. Se on sellainen tunne, jonka tunnistaa vasta kun on elänyt tarpeeksi kauan. Ei pelkoa, vaan pikemminkin tunnistamista. Tartuin puhelimeen ja luin tyttäreni Carolinen viestin. Isä, suunnitelmat muuttuivat. Et tulekaan järvimökille tänä viikonloppuna. Toddin vanhemmat ajavat Charlestonista ja talo … Read more
A 91-year-old man walked into a Kentucky town in 2009 and told authorities he had killed 22 deputy sheriffs six decades earlier, after those same deputies burned his wife alive. He said he had spent the intervening 60 years living alone in a remote hollow in Harlan County, carrying his wife’s ashes with him the … Read more
The Bengal famine of 1943 killed an estimated three million British subjects in India, and decades of historical research have increasingly pointed to man-made causes rather than natural disaster. The famine struck while Britain was fighting Japan in Asia during World War II. With Britain nearly bankrupt, London devised a financing system that economists and … Read more
Steven Spielberg acquired the rights to Thomas Keneally’s novel in 1982, yet he repeatedly stepped back from the project, privately admitting he was not emotionally prepared to take on a story of that weight. He even offered the director’s chair to others, with Roman Polanski, Martin Scorsese, and Billy Wilder all considered at various points. … Read more
Winston Churchill is remembered as the man who saved Britain, but the woman who saved Winston Churchill has largely been forgotten. In 1895, a young army officer with no money, no connections, and a famous father who had just died in disgrace wrote to his mother begging for help. That mother was Jennie Jerome, a … Read more